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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA158 ; Fri, 29 Jan 93 01:01:23 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!axion!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] 386bsd, the universe and everything Message-ID: <1993Jan28.114736@axion.bt.co.uk> Date: 28 Jan 93 11:47:36 GMT Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk Reply-To: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Organization: British Telecom Research Labs Lines: 46 I'm not yet running a 386bsd system and have only recently got the distributions sets. I've written the new dist.fs.pk-0.2 filesystem to a floppy (from a Sun - dd if=dist.fs.pk-0.2 of=/dev/rfd0c bs=9k), in an attempt to test this I booted a portable (which happened to be close at the time [don't know the spec]) with the disk. It came up with no problem (better than most commercial releases!!!) I was just having a quick look round and I typed 'pwd' which obviously does not exist on the floppy, I got the 'cant exec /bin/pwd' (or something close) message. After this every directory appears empty!! Is this normal? This may be a question that's been asked before but I can't find any references... I'm looking at getting a SCSI card for my PC, the price of these varies quite dramatically from about 20 pounds for an ST01/02 up to about 180 pounds for an Adaptec 154x, with the Future Domain ones in the middle. I have read somewhere (I can't remember where) that the Seagate ST01/02 cards ONLY work with DOS and ONLY support drives up to 100MB. Is this true? Do they have an external SCSI connector for CD-ROM etc... What kind of SCSI card support is there for 386BSD now! - I have read the messages in the SCSI source directory and there are references to both the Seagate and Future Domain controllers, with a note that says something like there are just a bit more than a dream!! - is that up to date? Another question i'm sure's been asked!! I've currently got a IDE controller, i've also got a MFM controller and drive! - can I get these to co-exist! And... A while ago there were some mutterings about DOS emulation from within 386BSD, did anything come of this? Are there any implementations? Thanks, Lee Essen